Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 00/11] aspeed: misc fixes and enhancements (SMC)

[Cédric Le Goater]

On 9/25/18 2:20 PM, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 21 September 2018 at 17:19, Cédric Le Goater <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> This series adds a couple of cleanups and two main features to the
>> SMC controller of the Aspeed machines :
>>
>>  - a 'execute-in-place' property to boot directly from a memory region
>>    alias of the FMC flash module using MMIO execution. This is not
>>    activated by default because boot time needs to be improved on
>>    recent firmwares. It also breaks migration compatibility.
>>
>>  - support for DMA to access the flash modules. Our primary need is
>>    the checksum calculation which is used to evaluate the best clock
>>    settings for reads.
> 
> I've picked out the easy parts of this series and added
> them to target-arm.next:
> 
>>   aspeed/timer: fix compile breakage with clang 3.4.2
>>   hw/arm/aspeed: change the FMC flash model of the AST2500 evb
>>   hw/arm/aspeed: Add an Aspeed machine class
>>   aspeed/smc: fix some alignment issues
> 
> and left the rest for the moment (I've still got this series
> on my to-review list).

I will wait for your comments on the DMA part before resending.

Thanks,

C.